Effectiveness of site diversity techniques for microwave reception in the wet tropics
Abstract
Rainfall in the tropics is characterized by the presence of rain cells, localized areas of extreme rain density which cause severe attenuation to the microwave signals used for satellite to ground communication. The use of site diversity, two separated receiving stations permanently linked, should prove an effective and economic method of improving continuity of reception. This contribution examines the performance of sky noise radiometers in such a configuration.
- Publication:
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Electronics Letters
- Pub Date:
- July 1992
- DOI:
- 10.1049/el:19920958
- Bibcode:
- 1992ElL....28.1508A
- Keywords:
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- Microwave Attenuation;
- Radiometers;
- Rain;
- Reception Diversity;
- Satellite Communication;
- Tropical Regions;
- Data Links;
- Microwave Transmission;
- Synchronous Satellites;
- Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command and Tracking